LINKING CLIMATE MODELS TO POLICY AND DECISION-MAKINGlikely follows established theoretical, disciplinary and methodologicalboundaries). Ideally readers should categorize the literature themselves asthis encourages the development of the reader’s own conceptual framework(i.e. accommodation in a constructivist sense), while tailoring the structuralschema to meet their own needs. Categorisation is a continuous process:resources are regularly added from SCOPUS 15 and outside sources, andcategories altered to meet the evolving needs and understanding of theresearcher 16 . The metrics from Section 3.1 should aid in this process byidentifying key journals and authors to initially focus upon. Ultimately, promisingarticles will have to be consulted directly to identify additional sources outsidethe SCOPUS domain, keeping in mind differential value.Fundamental Categories: The following proposed structure of CCA literature(see Table 5) is based upon the simple premise that theory informs method,which in turn informs practise. Fundamental generalities (theory) about the waythe world works (i.e. climatic and\or behavioural) are suggestive of variousmethodologies (e.g. modeled atmospheric relationships, rational economicdecision making, etc.), which can be used to direct human practises (i.e. levels ofmitigative and adaptive agency). Although science is not so linear (i.e. practisecan inform theory, etc) this assumption is a reasonable starting position giventhe exploratory nature of this analysis. This premise was translated into thefollowing five core classifications or themes: Theory, Disciplines, Method,Sectors\Resources, and Geopolitical Place, as seen in Table 5.Theory and Method refer specifically to topics concerned with climate changeadaptation (e.g. discussions of the concept of adaptation or integratedassessments methodologies) while Disciplines acts as an intermediary betweenthese two. Disciplines provides additional information regarding the variousfields that inform CCA theory and methodology (e.g. for instance there is astrong theoretical distinction between the social and physical sciences 17 ).Delineating method and theory in this way facilitates greater interpretation, asmost researchers are trained from within specific disciplinary fields. In a similarvein, Sectors\Resources, and Geopolitical Place, together represent theconditions for CAA practise which is concerned with increasing or maintaininghuman values (i.e. manifest as resources or affordances) associated with a specificplace (i.e. as geopolitically defined) in the face of climate change. This format15 Possibly using an RSS feed to be alerted to regular updates in the search.16 A manifestation of this approach is embodied in certain visions of the semantic web (Borland, 2007;Tossell, 2007).17 See MacLellan (2006), Chapters 3 and 4 for an extended discussion.64

PAPER 3 CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION FOR NEOPHYTESrecognises that resources (i.e. economic, natural and social capital) are usuallyspoken of in terms of both sectors (i.e. agriculture) and geo-political distinctions(e.g. the agricultural sector in the Canadian prairies).Given these categories and accompanying sub-categories (Table 5), individualarticles are placed within those which most suit their content 18 . Though mostwill be assigned to a single category, multiple classifications are possible forarticles that effectively span more than one topic. Once all articles have beensorted, it is possible to gauge the relative intellectual activity among topics,based upon the number of articles within the associated category. This is notintended as a measure of a topic’s importance 19 , it merely indicates the relativeattention paid by members of the CCA community to the topic in question.Tables 6.1 to 6.4 provide the relative academic activity occurring in eachcategory. Most articles (714 articles or approximately 61% of total CCA articles)specifically dealt with resource questions (i.e. Sectors\Resources) and associatedPlace distinctions (57%), while CCA Theory and Method accounted for 11% and16% respectively, and the intermediary category Disciplines, accounted for 28%of all articles.This focus upon practise is indicative of a field committed to assessing theimpacts of, and responses to, climate change. In the following treatment, weattempt to further tease out such general insights as guided by the relativeintellectual activity within different categories (see Tables 6.1 to 6.4). Someresults will appear obvious as above, while others may only become apparentwhen their omission is recognised. In our analysis, greater attention will be paidto categories with higher article counts. Thus we begin with a short discussionof the major topics of Theory. This is followed by a discussion of Disciplineswhich will examine the contribution of the top three disciplines, as identified byarticle count, and how they might be integrated. We then discuss Method interms of its essential components. And finish with a discussion ofSectors\Resources and associated Place in terms of their top three sectors andassociated geopolitical distinctions.18 This process utilized the custom grouping feature of ENDOTE XI which allows the user to define sub-categoriesand groupings of their bibliographic library.19 In positing his Anna Karenina principle, Diamond (1997) reminds us that environmental adaptation must accountfor numerous factors simultaneously. In essence this makes all essential factors equally important; ignoring any singlefactor will result in the same overall failure. The principle is taken from the first sentence of Tolstoy’s novel ‘AnnaKarenina’: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“65